What Is a Choice Mom?

She defines a ‘Choice Mom’ as “a single woman who proactively decides to become the best mother she can, through adoption or conception. Sometimes she finds a partner after she marches toward her goal of building a family’ sometimes she doesn’t.”

How does a single mom survive?

Don’t blame yourself or spoil your child to make up for being a single parent. Take care of yourself. Include physical activity in your daily routine, eat a healthy diet and get plenty of sleep. Arrange time to do activities you enjoy alone or with friends.

Are professional women becoming single mothers later in life?

Many professional women in my generation are choosing to become single mothers later in life, as they’d like to have children but haven’t really found someone who supports their careers and meets romantic needs. Women don’t need men to support them, and a good career can pay for quality childcare while at work.

What is the hardest thing about having a baby alone?

T he hardest thing about having a baby alone isn’t the expense, the fear or the loneliness. It isn’t the process of getting pregnant, with its cycles of raised and dashed hopes, or the term “sperm donor”, with its unsettling connotations.

Do you feel queasy about having a baby alone?

It’s not even the queasy feeling that what you are doing sets you apart from other people and that the reason you are doing it is not that you are a powerful, rational, resourceful woman, but, as a friend of mine put it after considering and rejecting the idea of having a baby alone, that “I couldn’t get anyone to shag me”. No.

Is it possible to be with someone who had a baby?

There was no such thing as being with someone who had a baby on her own. It sounded like a terrible deal: all the stress and anxiety without the substance of motherhood. At that stage, the strongest terms in which I could have put my own long-held but dormant desire for a baby were that I didn’t want not to have one.